Thousands in Peru Join Funeral March for Slain Union Chief
Thousands of Peruvians shouting anti-government slogans Wednesday joined the funeral cortege of Saul Cantoral, the country’s top mining union leader whose killing unionists blamed on a right-wing death squad.
About 4,000 workers, leftist politicians and women chanted “The people will avenge your death!” as the coffin bearing Cantoral’s remains was carried from the Communist-led Peruvian Labor Confederation to the Lima airport, witnesses said.
The coffin, draped with a Peruvian flag and covered with flowers, was then to be taken via light aircraft to the town of Nazca, in southern Ica province, where Cantoral will be buried Thursday.
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